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MSF Working to Meet Huge Medical Needs in Tanauan, Philippines

"These people lost everything, and they need everything, and they need it very quickly."

Louise JohnstonNurse, MSF

November 20, 2013

Tanauan, a small town of 50,000 inhabitants located 12 miles south of Tacloban, is one of the worst-affected areas in the Philippines. Some 95 percent of the houses were destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan and the population has only received minimal aid since. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) arrived in Tanauan Tuesday and is running a medical clinic.